Event leader Micah BUZIANIS (US-34 JP / NeilPryde) glided effortlessly through his qualifying heat yesterday at the Colgate PWA World Cup in Sylt, Germany, while tour leader Antoine ALBEAU (F-192 Starboard / NeilPryde) secured his spot in the final just before the wind shut down.

Third placed Arnon DAGAN (ISR-1, Fanatic / NeilPryde) is still very much in the game just ahead of light wind racing wizard Ross WILLIAMS (GBR-83 Tabou / Gaastra). The wave and freestyle fleets are forced to patiently sit out yet another day for their turn to perform.

Race Director Juan Antonio ARAGON made no hesitation to set a course, when after a windless morning, 8-11 knots of wind materialised. Next on the agenda was race five, with four qualifying heats and two semi-finals deciding who'd earn places in a 12 man final.

Gusty winds then disrupted play but the first semi-final was completed and ALBEAU clearly showed his intentions with a competitive win over Steve ALLEN (AUS-0 Tabou / Gaastra) and the impressive Florent RENARD (FRA-5, JP / NeilPryde).

Another name who's impressed on his debut Slalom 42 event was Klaas VOGET (G4, Fanatic / Neil Pryde) missed out this time, but is sure to be a name to watch out for in the future.

Racing was called off around 15.00 leaving the last semi final and winners and losers pending. With winds still unsuitable for freestyle, the event crew ended competition for the day at 17.00 and set a skippers' meeting for 08.00 for day 8, with a first possible start of 08.30 for all wavesailors, racers and freestylers. The event also has its own German language website www.worldcupsylt.de. A positive long range forecast could see competition starting immediately after the show opens.

Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) Events are designated as ISAF Special Events. There are five main disciplines that are held on the PWA World Tour: Wave, Freestyle, Race (Slalom 42), Super X and Indoor. Competitors at each World Tour event score points towards the PWA Annual Ranking list. At the end of the season, the sailor with the highest total score in each discipline is the PWA World Champion for that year. For more information on the PWA, the events and the sailors visit the PWA website - www.pwaworldtour.com.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne, Australia will host the final Rio 2016 Paralympic Games qualification regatta in 2015. With just under one year until the event, the 2015 IFDS Worlds was launched at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne kick starts the journey to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with qualification spots and top ranking points available in the Australian city.

Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.